The final novel by Marios Chakkas, one of Greece's most well-known and evocative writers. A legend in his home country of Greece but virtually unknown abroad,
The Commune is the final work of Marios Chakkas, composed in the months preceding his early death in 1972. Chakkas was born under the Fascist regime and reared as a socialist revolutionary, and
The Commune is his reckoning with the uncertainty of the past and the madness of the present as the military junta secures its position and the spirit of the socialist insurrection fades. Returning from political exile, Chakkas confronts the decay and ruin of his Athenian neighborhood as he recounts childhood gunfights in the streets, churches filled with asbestos, vanished comrades, and violent squabbles over memorials for executed partisans in his singular voice which swerves from scorching poetic indignation to gallows humor to metaphysical meditation.
《馬里奧斯·查卡斯（Marios Chakkas）的最後一部小說，希臘最知名且富有表現力的作家之一。》
在他故鄉希臘是一位傳奇人物，但在國外幾乎不為人知，《公社》（The Commune） 是馬里奧斯·查卡斯的最後作品，創作於他1972年早逝前的幾個月。查卡斯在法西斯政權下出生，並以社會主義革命者的身份成長，而《公社》 是他對過去不確定性和當前瘋狂的反思，當軍事政權穩固其地位，社會主義起義的精神逐漸消逝。從政治流亡中回國的查卡斯，面對他雅典社區的衰敗與毀壞，回憶起童年時期街頭的槍戰、充滿石棉的教堂、消失的同志，以及對被處決游擊隊員的紀念碑的激烈爭吵。他以獨特的聲音講述這些故事，語調從熾熱的詩意憤怒轉變為絞刑架上的幽默，再到形而上學的沉思。
Marios Chakkas (1931-1972) was a Greek writer whose life and work were deeply influenced by political persecution, particularly during the Greek junta. Born in Makrakomi and raised in Kaisariani, Chakkas began his activism early, helping prisoners in Gyaros at age 19. His political activities led to his arrest and a four-year jail sentence in 1954, interrupting his university studies. In the 1960s, he published his only lifetime poetic collection,
Beautiful Summer, and continued to face persecution for his political affiliations. Chakkas wrote three theatrical solo acts in his final years before succumbing to cancer at the age of 41, during the junta period, leaving behind a legacy of politically charged literature that reflected his tumultuous experiences.
Chloe Tsolakoglou is a Greek-American writer who grew up in Athens, Greece. A PhD Student in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, her work has been published in or is forthcoming by Denver Quarterly's FIVES,
The Adroit Journal,
Cream City Review, and elsewhere.
馬里奧斯·查卡斯（Marios Chakkas，1931-1972）是一位希臘作家，他的生活和作品深受政治迫害的影響，特別是在希臘軍事政權期間。查卡斯出生於馬克拉科米（Makrakomi），在凱薩里亞尼（Kaisariani）長大，早在19歲時便開始參與社會運動，幫助在雅羅斯（Gyaros）監獄的囚犯。他的政治活動導致他在1954年被逮捕，並被判刑四年，這使他的大學學業中斷。在1960年代，他出版了唯一一部生前詩集《美麗的夏天》（Beautiful Summer），並因其政治立場持續遭受迫害。查卡斯在生命的最後幾年創作了三部獨幕劇，最終在41歲時因癌症去世，正值軍事政權期間，留下了反映他動盪經歷的政治文學遺產。
克洛伊·索拉科格魯（Chloe Tsolakoglou）是一位希臘裔美國作家，成長於希臘雅典。她是哥倫比亞大學英語與比較文學的博士生，她的作品已在《丹佛季刊》（Denver Quarterly）的FIVES、《靈巧期刊》（The Adroit Journal）、《奶油城市評論》（Cream City Review）等刊物上發表或即將發表。
